Drew Burrett
@drewburrett.bsky.social
Fanatically indifferent, reliably subversive, agreeably contradictory (also dad, husband, physics teacher, cyclist, active travel advocate & amateur atheist)
Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.
The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
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Great to see public libraries highlighted by the BBC as a low-cost way for families to make the most of the summer holidays. 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Five ways to make the most of the summer holidays with kids
The best tips and tricks to have a fun - yet affordable - summer break with the family.
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We are still here! This place wasnt a replacement for 'That Other Place' but we will still try to help out if you are an ECT or experienced teacher or just bored and needing a chat. Make social media 'social' again!
Ricky Gervais: Always Nice To Chat
ALT: Ricky Gervais: Always Nice To Chat
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Professional development videos to help teachers consider ways to make practical work purposeful in primary science: www.bathspa.ac.uk/projects/pra... #edusky #cpd
Practical work in primary school science
This Nuffield Foundation funded research seeks to clarify the role of practical work in primary school science.
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Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie released the year you turned 18?
Kenny@kennypieper.bsky.social · 2w agoWithout saying your age, what is your favourite movie released the year you turned 18?
Parents! Carers! Anyone running some sort of holiday play scheme! Here's a thread of some "arts & crafts" activities which are fun and easy and have a science / engineering theme:
Alom Shaha@alomshaha.bsky.social · 2y agoFellow parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children over half-term! Here is a thread of videos showing TOYS you can MAKE at home from scrap stuff you probably have lying around. First, the utterly delightful "balancing bird" alomshaha.com/balancing-bi...
I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
Join award-winning author and former science teacher Danny Nicholson for this engaging online session, packed with practical ideas for using children's books to spark curiosity, inspire scientific enquiry, and deepen understanding. 💙 Free for ASE members 👉 Book today! https://ow.ly/yhHf50Zne8S
Introducing the Physics Retrieval Practice Toolkit 🙂 I hope you find it useful. I will keep updating it and add more courses #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪 www.drjonesphysics.com/retrieval-pr...
Idea for new celeb-based TV programs, using the remaining interrogatives... "What do you think you are?", "Where do you think you are?", "How do you think you are?", "Why do you think you are?" One of them has got to be a winner...
£10 billion of your money wasted on useless PPE barely scratches the surface of how appalling the Tories were. Brace for worse in this excerpt from The Decade In Tory. No paywall. open.substack.com/pub/russinch...
Remembering the Tory response to Covid
As an inquiry finally confirms the scale of PPE waste and corruption, this excerpt from The Decade In Tory reveals the true, horrifying detail of government incompetence as the pandemic struck.
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The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.
Almost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded. The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts
Johnson government wasted ‘vast’ sums on PPE, Covid inquiry finds
Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report
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There's a simple, fair and effective means of funding politics, which ensures that voters count and money doesn't. MPs: please stop messing about with proposals for donation caps, and press for a proper, democratic funding system. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Political donations are poison to our democracy – but there’s an easy antidote to that | George Monbiot
As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep, says columnist George Monbiot
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This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4w agoAmnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
Just a word on the Benefits v Pensions Triple lock argument. They are both classed as benefits, cutting one will give them an excuse to cut the other. If you are arguing for one to be cut you are arguing for both to be cut. They are easily affordable, cut the billionaires.
GUYS - I’ve just realised what Farage is going to do… The thing is he now has NO WAY to proceed which doesn’t humiliate him. If he wins, he is, as Rachel Reeves put it, The Man Who Spent His Summer Arguing With A Bin. If he bails, he’s The Man Who Fled From A Bin. And if he LOSES…
Oh come on @vicderbyshire.bsky.social - are you going to take control of the programme and let other guests actually speak? #Newsnight
Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
Why is Nigel Farage allowed to resign and then stand again in the same seat for the next election. This waste of resources really should be illegal.
Imagine if all the other countries in the World Cup now refused to play. Imagine if we could show Trump and others like him that their behaviour really is unacceptable to decent people.